New York City in 2022. Half the 40-million people in the swarming metropolis are unemployed, the air is thick with pollution, food and water are as precious as jewels. This was the world of the future as envisaged in the sci-fi thriller, Soylent Green, in 1973.
We smile affectionately at the Morris dancers and bow if introduced to the Queen. But it does seem to me that in the matter of ”games”, such as those currently taking place in Manchester, north-west England, we are taking tradition too far to be healthy.
Northern Ireland faces a ”nightmare scenario” with Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein becoming the dominant parties and the peace process in such trouble that it would take a generation to resolve, First Minister David Trimble said this week.
FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela plans to visit the Libyan
secret agent imprisoned in Glasgow for planting the bomb on a plane that
killed 270 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a Sunday
paper said.
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A British family doctor convicted of killing 15 patients, and suspected of killing 200 or more, was found dead in his prison cell on Tuesday, the British Prison Service said. Dr Harold Shipman was found hanging in his cell at Wakefield Prison in northern England at 6.20am and was pronounced dead at 8:10am.
The reputation of Silvio Berlusconi’s government sank to a new low at the weekend when newspapers published photographs of members of his coalition casting multiple votes.
The bankers of Cape plc — the company that reached an out-of-court settlement with asbestosis victims last year — would be held personally responsible if it is proved they were responsible for reneging on the agreement, says the victims’ legal counsel.
South African financial services group Investec Plc detailed plans on Monday to raise nearly 100-million pounds via a London share sale to expand its businesses, braving jittery stock markets.
The Aids epidemic is causing the spiralling disintegration of some of the poorest countries in Africa, precipitating famine and social, political and economic collapse, says the latest official United Nations update.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has told a British member of parliament that he will implement United Nations resolutions and allow arms inspectors into his country.
An English court has ruled that a father should get custody of his two children because his ex-wife uses the Internet to meet men.
A fiberglass bust that purportedly shows the true face of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun went on display this week at London’s Science Museum.
An Italian is among the suspects who have been arrested in connection with the main Bali bombing. Newspapers identified him as Andrea Giovanni Sorteni, 38, from Milan, and said he was detained soon after the devastating attack on the Sari Club.
The United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday accused hawks in Washington, who are bent on going to war with Iraq, of conducting a smear campaign against him.
A male nurse who admitted lighting the fire that killed the billionaire banker Edmond Safra was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison, bringing to an end an extraordinary tragedy of errors that rocked the wealthy Mediterranean enclave of Monaco to its foundations.
SABMiller Plc, the world’s second-biggest brewer, said on Tuesday that earnings continued to grow despite some tough markets, giving its shares a boost, but brewing industry analysts were not all impressed.
Gold remained locked in the midst of its current range although prices backpedalled as the dollar rose against the euro and resistance again went unchallenged.
The Iraqi National Congress was to meet Friday in London with former army officers, opponents of President Saddam Hussein and a US official to discuss ways of toppling his regime.
Helen has not heard from her parents for two years since they left El Salvador to work illegally in the United States. She has run away from her aunt’s house to live with a gang. ‘My parents think I’m a little angel,’ she says, making horns with her fingers above her head, ‘but really I’m a little devil.’ She is 13 and she has already killed a man.
President George Bush last night said he was confident that the vote will be held today on a UN resolution that would disarm Saddam Hussein by seeing the return to Iraq of the weapons inspectors as early as the week after next.
Police in South Africa raided homes of suspected white militants across the country yesterday in the biggest security sweep since terrorists started a bombing campaign to destabilise the government.
The Russian government may claim its use of fentanyl, a heroin-like chemical 100 times more potent than morphine, was unavoidable in the circumstances of the Moscow hostage crisis.
Iraq has military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, Britain said on Tuesday in a dossier of evidence about Iraq’s development of weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq stepped up its charm offensive towards the United Nations weapons inspectors yesterday by quickly letting them into one of Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad palaces when they turned up for a surprise search.
A little way off the Californian coast, near the island of San Clemente, the men of the USS Constellation’s squadrons were last week going through their paces to ready themselves for war.
Ariel Sharon’s minority government survived a series of no-confidence votes in the knesset last night, only to be confronted by a fresh challenge that left the hardline administration looking highly unstable.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard told BBC radio on Wednesday that Zimbabwe should be fully suspended from the Commonwealth.
Brewing giant SABMiller Plc reported a 24 percent rise in half-year profits on Thursday and said it would cut costs in a bid to win over American beer drinkers.
In May 1962, a little-known band called the Beatles were playing in Hamburg’s Star Club when they received a telegraph from their manager Brian Epstein in London: ”Congratulations, boys, EMI requests recording session. Please, rehearse new material”.
South African Breweries agreed on Thursday to buy Miller Brewing from Philip Morris in a ,6-billion deal.
Indonesian police have released sketches of three suspects believed to have planted the bombs that destroyed two nightclubs in Bali and killed nearly 200 people.
A Paris court yesterday cleared Michel Houellebecq, the enfant terrible of French letters, of provoking religious and racial hatred by calling Islam ”the most stupid of religions”.